The Reason for the Season

[_canpakes]

....it’s indeed fascinating to consider that no-one cared to document his life aside from one or two alleged incidents, over the next three decades. Why do you suppose that was?
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clearly, and as usual, you have disqualified your posts by exhibiting sub-cursory knowledge for the topic.

3 decades? it seems that only about 18 years are unaccounted for...but again, you draw your opinions from seemingly magical and yet to be revealed sources.
Maybe Nag Hammadi? etc.

good luck!

Let's see ... canpakes said:

"no-one cared to document his life aside from one or two alleged incidents, over the next three decades."

Jesus is widely held to have commenced his public activity around the age of thirty. So we have 30 years, three decades, between the events said to have occurred around his birth and the time when we begin to be given a lot of details of his activities in the New Testament. During those three decades we have only one substantive story about him - in Luke chapter 2, where his parents are said to have taken him to Jerusalem at the age of twelve.

Yup, so far as the New Testament is concerned,

"no-one cared to document his life aside from one or two alleged incidents, over the next three decades."

In fact, off-hand I can only think of one 'incident' worth referring to from those decades after the time around his birth.

subs has a bit of a reading comprehension problem. I’ve come to expect that he’ll just bang out nonsensical responses to posts without really looking at whatever he’s responding to.

[_subgenius]

Maybe Nag Hammadi? etc.

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I’ve come to expect that he’ll just bang out nonsensical responses to posts without really looking at whatever he’s responding to.

I don't even expect from you anymore, you are woefully predictable....or have vision problems (made bold for ya)

Infancy Gospel of Thomas - The text describes the life of the child Jesus, with fanciful, and sometimes malevolent, supernatural events... see also Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk.


but i get you and Chap...you guys were limiting the argument to "why no tweener years" for Jesus in the New Testament...because its obviously such a void in Christian Doctrine - what was King James thinking, amiright?

[_Chap]

i get you and Chap...you guys were limiting the argument to "why no tweener years" for Jesus in the New Testament...because its obviously such a void in Christian Doctrine - what was King James thinking, amiright?

How strange to limit sources to the New Testament! That might have something to do with the scholarly consensus that what little we may or may not know about the life of the guy we call Jesus is to be found there - if anywhere at all.

(By the way, is subgenius under the impression that the canon of the four gospels was laid down under King James 1 of England (r. 1603-1625 in England)? Given his record, I wouldn't be at all surprised.)

And as for this:

Infancy Gospel of Thomas - The text describes the life of the child Jesus, with fanciful, and sometimes malevolent, supernatural events... see also Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk.

Yup, I know about the Infancy Gospels, such as that of Thomas. The attitude of early Christian scholars to IGT was that it was of no value as as a source for the childhood of Jesus. Such texts were clearly created to fill the obvious gap in the New Testament sources, already set out in this thread. And why on earth would any serious discussion of the biography of Jesus concern itself with the 14th century MS you refer to?

Dammit, I forgot that in addition to his other peculiarities, subgenius is also a Mormon. That entails a rather different attitude to ancient texts from that of mainstream Christianity. After all, if you can swallow the Book of Mormon, what's so hard about the odd fake gospel?

[_schreech]

Yup, I know about the Infancy Gospels, such as that of Thomas. The attitude of early Christian scholars to IGT was that it was of no value as as a source for the childhood of Jesus. Such texts were clearly created to fill the obvious gap in the New Testament sources, already set out in this thread. And why on earth would any serious discussion of the biography of Jesus concern itself with the 14th century MS you refer to?

Dammit, I forgot that in addition to his other peculiarities, subgenius is also a Mormon. That entails a rather different attitude to ancient texts from that of mainstream Christianity. After all, if you can swallow the Book of Mormon, what's so hard about the odd fake gospel?

It hilarious that he used a fictional book about the early childhood of Jesus to counter the argument that there is little information about what Jesus was doing for about 3 decades.

[_canpakes]

I’ve come to expect that he’ll just bang out nonsensical responses to posts without really looking at whatever he’s responding to.

I don't even expect from you anymore, you are woefully predictable....or have vision problems (made bold for ya)

My vision seems to be good enough to notice that you’ve been unwilling or unable to address or defend your allegation regarding the opening post’s supposed incoherence between its subject and any “pagan appropriation protest”.

Are you having issues remaining focused, in addition to your usual reading comprehension difficulties?